What did Ned Beauman mean by: The reason I start a novel is because there’s something that excites me and I want to explore it. - Ned Beauman Author · United Kingdom Copy
+ When I’m writing new material, I never have any trouble coming up with ideas. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Ned Beauman, Trouble, Writing, 0 - Ned Beauman Author · United Kingdom
+ It seems to me that the basic plot of all historical novels is a romance swept aside by history. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Ned Beauman, Historical, Novel, Romance, 0 - Ned Beauman Author · United Kingdom
+ I read ‘The Good Soldier’ by Ford Madox Ford again every so often. Feraz Zeid, December 28, 2023January 10, 2024, Ned Beauman, Soldier, 0 - Ned Beauman Author · United Kingdom
I like shape very much. A novel has to have shape, and life doesn’t have any. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
Yes, I was good at reading people. I studied them so I could put them in my novels. - Jennifer Echols Author
We are not quite novels. We are not quite short stories. In the end, we are collected works - Gabrielle Zevin Author · USA
In the novel or the journal you get the journey. In a poem you get the arrival. - May Sarton Poet · Belgium
Novels can fill in the spaces about what that emotional resonance is. - Quiara Alegria Hudes Playwright
